Details

May Day is looming, and the small town of Loxford is in chaos. All the potential May Queens are morally unsuitable. Desperate, the locals decide a May King will have to do instead. They choose the blameless Albert Herring, from the greengrocers. He isn't keen, but stuck firmly under his mother's thumb, he'll do what he is told. However, after one rum-laced lemonade at the May Day ceremony, Albert disappears, and even greater chaos ensues. Britten's sharply satiric take on village life makes for a glorious and very English comedy. A revival of the 1985 Festival production sponsored by Associated Newspapers Limited. Finish time 21:40

Cast/Performers

Allan Clayton (Albert Herring), Gwynne Geyer (Lady Billows), Susan Gorton (Florence Pike), Malin Christensson (Miss Wordsworth), Alan Opie (Mr Gedge), John Graham-Hall (Mr Upfold), Brindley Sherratt (Superintendent Budd), Jared Holt (Sid), Louise Poole (Nancy), Frances McCafferty (Mrs Herring)

Creatives/Company

Music: Britten
Producer: Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Conductor: Gerard Korsten
Director(s): Peter Hall, James Robert Carson (revival director)
Design: John Gunter
Lighting: Keith Benson
Company: London Philharmonic Orchestra